Michelle Witmer and her two sisters all found their calling to serve in the United States military and served in Iraq with the National Guard. In emails home, Witmer said she was working night shifts and that she enjoyed volunteering at an orphanage. “It was when I was holding one of these children that I realized I have so much to be thankful for,” she wrote to her parents.
Witmer was assigned to the Army National Guard’s 32nd Military Police Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On April 9 Witmer’s Humvee was attacked in Baghdad. In the ensuing firefight, she was fatally wounded.
Witmer was remembered fondly as a loving and empathetic friend. Of her upbeat demeanor even in the face of uncertainty, Sgt. Nora Prohaska reflected on her time with Witmer: “She rescued our minds from the loneliness and solitude brought about by a deployment that at times seems like it will never end.”
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